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Peter Griffin doesn’t have such a bad gig being a toy designer. In fact, the average salary for one of these jobs is around $53,000. Not bad, not bad at all.
Huffington Post headed to their favorite salary-searching websites (like Glassdoor.com) in search of unusual jobs with fat paychecks. Yep, they exist. And there are many more than you may think.
Some of these don’t require a college degree. Curious? Ready for a career change?
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/high-paying-jobs-that-will-surprise-you_n_1818374.html?ir=Small+Business#slide=more245986
Can the severely mentally ill be considered “jerks”? Oh yeah, definitely. SOMEONE here is a jerk for letting this happen.
A Thai mother has been accused of killing, cooking and eating her sons because she thought they were pigs, the Bangkok Post reports. Hallucinations may have played a role in the tragic crime.
Police received a complaint last week that the woman allegedly “butchered” her two sons, ages 1 and 5, and proceeded to cook and eat them. According to the Bangkok Post, law enforcement officials allegedly found the woman asleep with several body parts strewn around her. Later, they reportedly learned she had been treated for mental illness since 2007.
A previous report from the Bangkok Post said that the woman stopped taking her medicine one or two months ago. A hospital report said the woman suffered from hallucinations and thought someone was coming to hurt her. She is now in a mental institution for treatment and is mentally unfit to stand trial for the murder of her children.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/thai-mother-kills-cooks-eats-sons_n_1818204.html?ir=World
Asian character tattoos on English-speaking people are nothing new, with phrases like “hope,” “dream”, and “love” adorning many an ankle or lower back.
But unless you know the language, you could be getting a tattoo that says “I’m a dumbass” and not be the wiser.
Tian Tang over at Hanzi Smatter has been chronicling the “misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture” for quite some time, and trust us: he’s translated some doozies.
SEE THEM HERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/18/asian-tattoo-fails_n_1796981.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
We’re talkin’ snakes here, dude. BIG snakes. Ones that don’t belong here.
Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey captured a state record-breaking Burmese python that was not only a whopping 17 feet and 7 inches long, but carrying an also-record-breaking 87 eggs.
The massive gal weighed 164 pounds, according to staff at the University of Florida, who said the previous records for length and fertility were a measly 16.8 feet and 85 eggs.
“She was a beast!” USGS research ecologist Dr. Kristen Hart, whose team caught the snake, told HuffPost. “She was really impressive.”
Hart said the huge python was initially spotted in March when a “judas snake” — a male python outfitted with a transmitter for tracking during mating season — led USGS biologists Thomas Selby and Brian Smith straight to her. Getting the snake from the brush to the office was no small feat, though the very fit Selby and Smith are roughly 6′ 5″ and 5′ 10″, respectively.
The pythons have become such a problem in the Everglades that the plus-sized slitherer wasn’t immediately euthanized, but instead put to work as an informant. The USGS team inserted two radio tags and a GPS inside her during surgery, along with a small motion detector about the size of six stacked quarters.
For 38 days, the snake was at large in the Everglades again while Hart and other researchers kept careful track of her and their expensive equipment. But the python had to be put down before the gadgets’ batteries ran out, surveillance budgets ran over, or the big girl (gulp) reproduced.
No one knows for sure how imported pythons first made their way into the Everglades. Popular yet unproven theories involve a reptile house destroyed in Hurricane Andrew, sending serpents slithering into the wild, or lazy exotic pet owners who dumped their former charges near Everglades National Park. Perhaps both.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/record-breaking-python-87-eggs-florida-everglades_n_1773707.html?ir=Green
Spare change. $172,000 was the winning bid at at a Profiles in History prop auction over the weekend. The purchase netted the winning bidder the head of Chewbacca.
The item’s description in the auction handbook is as follows:
It consists of a screen-used cowl hairpiece (which encompasses the entire head), and a period-made Stuart Freeborn facial appliance. Judging by the construction of the cowl, it was also most likely used in more than one of the original films of the trilogy. The facial appliance is attached to the cowl and mounted on a period Stuart Freeborn foam Chewbacca head so that the display retains its screen-used appearance. The foam head was originally made by Freeborn to support the facial appliances while they were prepared for i lming on the set. The front jaw, mouth, nose, teeth and tongue that comprise the facial appliance are original period pieces made for the production by Stuart Freeborn, and have been reassembled for the display. The eyes are actual casts of Peter Mayhew’s closed eyes, taken directly from the lifecast that Freeborn made for the trilogy.
While spending $172,000 on some “Star Wars” paraphernalia might seem extravagant, the cost is in line with some previously acquired props from George Lucas’ space masterpiece.
That is one SERIOUS collector out there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/30/star-wars-chewbacca-head-172000_n_1718557.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment
What a fun and creative way to begin her weight loss journey. Pauline Potter became the world’s heaviest living woman last year, weighing in at a whopping 643 pounds. Now, Potter has her sights set on losing weight, and she’s turned to marathon sex sessions to help shed the pounds.
“I can’t move much in bed, but I burn 500 calories a session –- it’s great exercise just jiggling around,” said Potter. Potter, who had been consuming 10,000 calories a day, hopes to reach her goal weight of 532 pounds with the help of Alex, her ex-husband. The two “get their exercise” up to seven times each day.
After meeting online in 2002, the couple married in 2005 and, when Potter failed to bond with Alex’s son, the two split up three years later. The break-up triggered Potter’s weight gain and caused her depression.
Ms. Potter contacted the Guinness Book of World Records in hopes that winning the title of “World’s Heaviest Woman” would shame her into losing weight. When Alex got wind of the publicity surrounding Potter, he decided to visit her and the flame was quickly rekindled.
“Shagging can make you slimmer, if you do enough of it,” Dr. Yvonne Kristin Fulbright, a sex educator, relationship expert, columnist and founder of Sexuality Source Inc., wrote for Fox News in 2008. “It can also help the two of you fall for each other all over again. Requiring no monthly fee — dress code optional – you can ‘sexercise’ yourself into shape. This is one gym membership you’ll never want to drop.”
While continuing her exercise routine, Ms. Potter has also reigned in her poor eating habits, with only an occasional Big Mac.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/pauline-potter-weight-loss-worlds-heaviest-woman_n_1662919.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
Not many bees were harmed in this video. In fact, 95% of the 50,000 or so bees survived, thanks to Larry Chen.
Rather than wipe out the colony, Chen decided to call a specialist who would simply relocate the bees. Watch the fascinating bee rescue HERE.
The removal process at Chen’s home took five hours. Mike, ’The Bee Guy’, was stung four times. Chen was stung once.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/larry-chen-bees-inside-walls-california-home_n_1667930.html
The International Space Station orbits Earth at an average altitude of about 250 miles and travels at around 17,500 miles per hour. It makes roughly 16 trips around the planet every day.
Tomislav Safundžić, resident of Earth, is an 18-year-old who enjoys photography and video editing. He composed “This is Our Planet” with photos and video from the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory at the NASA-Johnson Space Center.
Edited to “Intro” by The XX, the video offers a spectacular view of the home planet, aurorae, stars, and even parts of the ISS.
VIEW IT HERE
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/this-is-our-planet-iss-video-tomislav-safundzic_n_1646944.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
You CAN turn your life around and make an honest living. Maybe going to prison to have time to figure it out is what it takes, and that’s exactly what Jeff Henderson did. Henderson became the first African-American chef at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas before branding himself as “Chef Jeff” and starting The Henderson Group Inc., a catering, publishing, multimedia and consulting firm.
Jeff Henderson wasn’t just a crack cocaine dealer, he was the best crack cocaine dealer of his era. In 1980s San Diego, Henderson was known for his Mercedes convertible, his Rolex and his straight-from-Rodeo-Drive fashion, as well as for having the best product, the best connections and a money-back guarantee. He was making up to $35,000 a week.
“The same traits that a successful drug dealer has are the same traits any legitimate entrepreneur has,” Henderson said. “You have a product, you have a marketing plan, you have a vision, you build relationships. You outsmart, out-strategize the competition.”
In prison, it took Jeff a few years of positive people, yes, positive people in prison, getting in his ear until one day he just accepted responsibility and gave up the victim card. And then he started changing. One inmate told him, ”Jeff you’re a smart guy.” No one ever told him he was smart. The inmate said, “When you were on the street, you had all the traits of success and all the principles of a legitimate businessman. You just had a bad product.”
Henderson said, “Drug dealing is not a part of my life I’m proud of. But I use my story to convince at-risk people that they have the gift, traits, ability to create their own business. I tell kids I’m still a homeboy, I’m still a hustler — I just changed the products and the terminology.”
There IS hope for you to get on the straight and narrow. Clean up your act, follow Henderson’s example, and avoid prison. The food there isn’t all that great now that Jeff Henderson is out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/jeff-henderson-what-drug-dealing-taught-me-about-business_n_1601526.html?ir=Small+Business
In a sad plea for help, a New Mexico woman put her SOUL up for sale on eBay this week. Starting bid? $2,000.
After a devastating car accident in 2007, Lori N. has endured severe pain and multiple serious injuries.
“I’m at the point now, I’m tired,” Lori said. “I don’t feel good. I’m near the end of my rope. I really am.”
From eBay:
We don’t allow humans, the human body, or any human body parts or products to be listed on eBay, with two exceptions. Sellers can list items containing human scalp hair, and skulls and skeletons intended for medical use.
The listing has been removed from eBay. Let’s hope Lori gets the help she needs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/06/lori-n-soul-for-sale_n_1654469.html?utm_hp_ref=technology&ir=Technology
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